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What is the frame of reference problem in observing an agent?

  • A.The agent's coordinate system differs from the environment's
  • B.Behaviour described from outside may not reflect internal complexity
  • C.Agents cannot observe their own position within the environment
  • D.Different observers measure the agent's speed differently

Answer: B

Simon's ant traces a complex path across a beach, but the complexity belongs to the terrain rather than to the ant, whose rules are simple, and the same caution applies to any behaviour attributed to an agent. Coordinate systems and relative motion are different senses of the phrase. Resisting the inference from complicated behaviour to a complicated mechanism is a discipline that saves both overestimating simple systems and underestimating the role of the environment.

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